Dr. Taylor Priest

Dr.  Taylor Priest

Dr. Taylor Priest

Staff of Professorship for Microbiome Research

ETH Zürich

Institut für Mikrobiologie

HCI F 409

Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

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Education & Professional training

July 2024 – Present; NOMIS-ETH Postdoctoral Fellow,
Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

July 2023 – June 2024; Postdoctoral researcher, 
Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

December 2022 – June 2023; Postdoctoral researcher,
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany 

April 2019 – December 2022; PhD in Marine Microbial Ecology, 
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany 
Thesis title
Molecular ecological characterization of high-latitude bacterioplankton’ 
- Thesis supervised by PD. Dr. Bernhard M. Fuchs 

October 2017 – March 2019; MSc Marine Microbiology 
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany 
Thesis title: 
Investigating fungal community dynamics through a coastal spring algal bloom’ 

September 2014 – July 2017; BSc Marine Biology & Oceanography  
Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK

 

Awards/Grants

NOMIS-ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2024-

FEMS Microbiology Ecology Lecture Prize. 9th International Conference on Polar and Alpine Microbiology, Potsdam, Germany, 2022

MARMIC teaching excellence award. International Max Planck Research School for Marine Microbiology. 2021 - 2022

 

Presentation of research

  • Poster: Gordon Research Conference of Marine Microbes (2024), Switzerland.
  • Poster: ISME19 Conference (2024), Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Invited speaker: PacBio Day (2022), Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
  • Poster: ISME18 Conference (2022), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Speaker: Polar Microbes Symposium (2022), Tvårminne, Finland
  • Speaker: International Conference of Polar and Alpine Microbiology (2022), Potsdam, Germany
  • Invited speaker: Seminar at University of Oldenburg (2022). Oldenburg, Germany
  • Invited speaker: Virtual PacBio Day at EMBL (2022)
  • Invited speaker: PacBio Global Virtual User Meeting (2021)

 

Publications

Priest, T., Oldenburg, E., Popa, O., Dede, B., Metfies, K., von Appen, W., Torres-Valdes, S., Bienhold, C., Fuchs, B. M., Amann, R., Boetius, A., Wietz, M., (2024). Seasonal recurrence and modular assembly of an Arctic pelagic marine microbiome. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.10.593482 (Accepted in Nature Communications)

Wietz, M., Engel, A., Ramondenc, S., Niwano, M., Von Appen, W.-J., Priest, T., von Jackowski, A., Metfies, K., Bienhold, C., Boetius, A., (2023) . The Arctic summer microbiome across Fram Strait: depth, region and substrates structure microbial diversity in the euphotic zone. Env. Microbiol. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16568

Priest, T., Vidal-Melgosa, S., Hehemann, J.-H., Amann, R., Fuchs, B., (2023). Spatial heterogeneity in carbohydrates and their utilisation by microbial communities in the high North Atlantic. ISME Commun. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00324-7  

Priest, T., Von Appen, J.-W., Oldenburg, E., Popa, Ovidiu, Torres-Valdés, S., Bienhold, C.,  Metfies, K., Fuchs, B. M., Amann, R., Boetius, A., Wietz, M., (2022). Variations in Atlantic water influx and sea ice cover drive taxonomic and functional shifts in Arctic marine bacterial  communities. ISME J. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01461-6

Dede, B., Priest, T., Bach, W., Amann, R., Walter, M., Meyerdieks, A., (2022). High  abundance of hydrocarbon-degrading Alcanivorax in plumes of hydrothermally active  volcanoes in the South Pacific Ocean. ISME J. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01366-4

Vidal-Melgosa, S., Lagator, M., Sichert, A., Priest, T., Pätzold, J., Hehemann, J.-H., (2022).  Not digested: algal glycans move carbon dioxide into the deep-sea. BioXriv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.04.483023(Under review

Priest, T., Heins, A., Harder, J., Amann, R., Fuchs, B. M., (2022). Niche partitioning of the  ubiquitous and ecologically relevant NS5 marine group. ISME J
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01209-8  

Priest, T., Orellana, L. H., Huettel, B., Fuchs, B. M., Amann, R., (2021). Microbial metagenome-assembled genomes of the Fram Strait from short and long read sequencing  platforms. PeerJ. 9:e11721.https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11721

Priest, T., Fuchs, B., Amann, R., Reich, M., (2021). Diversity and biomass dynamics of unicellular marine fungi during a spring phytoplankton bloom. Env Microbiol. 23(1):448-463. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11721

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Additional information

My research is centred around understanding the diversity and eco-evolutionary dynamics of microorganisms across Earth's diverse ecosystems. Some of the key questions that inspire my research and guide my investigations include:

1) What is the diversity of microbial life across Earth’s diverse ecosystems and what are the processes that structure diversity over space and time?

2) What are the physiological and molecular adaptations that distinguish ecologically distinct microbes?

3) What are the ecological or evolutionary drivers of adaptation and diversification?

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